Table of Contents

PART 1: THE HUNGARIANS 29
Western images of the Hungarians 31
Introduction
31
Historical Western images and stereotypes
of the Hungarians
33
Negative images and stereotypes 33
Positive images and stereotypes 36
Positive and negative iniages and stereotypes 38
Hungarian images and stereotypes before,
during and after the First World War 40
The Hunparian self-image
53
How many Hungarians live in
the Carpathian Basin? 62
The Hungarian lancuage and
myths of ethno-genesis 64
Hungarian history
76
Trianon research
79
Research into the e1ite 80
Conclusions
81
The emergence of a new Hungarian self-image 83
The open Hungarian culture 84
Integrational power and tolerance 86
Mental-moral imperatives 91
Willingness to compromise 93
The drive for freedom 97
The Hungarian language 99
Mental and material cultural heritage 104

PART II: TRIANON AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
FOR THE HUNGARIANS 113
Hungary before the First World War 115
The background to the First World War 117
The road to Trianon 126

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The Trianon secrets 133
The losses of Trianon
143
Hungary during the interbellum 149
New Central European states 149
Ethnic engineering 154
The freeing of the Hungarians 167
Ethnic cleansing
170
Retuming to hell 174
Anti-Hungarian ethnocide 177
Croatia: the annihilation
of a Hungarian community 185
Lesser Yugoslavia: Hungarians as cannon fodder
for Serbian generals 192
Slovakia: ethnic cleansing with the aid
of administrative means 201
Subcarpathia: the obstruction
of Hungarian autonomy 209
Transylvania: the anatomy of a pogrom 213